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CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for Le Prix Médicis étranger. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld, and has also written for shows on FX, AMC, Facebook Watch, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Time and Ploughshares. You can find him on Twitter @charles_yu.

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	Interior Chinatown 3.94 avg rating — 71,919 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe 3.45 avg rating — 20,161 ratings — published 2010 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sorry Please Thank You 3.63 avg rating — 2,927 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Third Class Superhero 3.54 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Only Living Girl on Earth 3.32 avg rating — 984 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by Charles Yu (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 718 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fable 4.11 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Standard Loneliness Package from the Collection Sorry Please Thank You 3.89 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeoman 3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hero Absorbs Major Damage 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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With the advent of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV+ we’re currently experiencing a kind of Golden Age...

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“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

tags: experience, life, memory, time, wisdom

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“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

tags: dogs

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“If you don't believe it, go down to your local karaoke bar on a busy night. Wait until the third hour, when the drunk frat boys and gastropub waitresses with headshots are all done with Backstreet Boys and Alicia Keys and locate the slightly older Asian businessman standing patiently in line for his turn, his face warmly rouged on Crown or Japanese lager, and when he steps up and starts slaying "Country Roads," try not to laugh, or wink knowingly or clap a little too hard, because by the time he gets to "West Virginia, mountain mama," you're going to be singing along, and by the time he's done, you might understand why a seventy-seven-year-old guy from a tiny island in the Taiwan Strait who's been in a foreign country for two-thirds of his life can nail a song, note perfect, about wanting to go home.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

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Polls

What is your favorite time travel book? (Please add it if it's not already here).

The Time Traveler's Wife

15 votes, 15.2%

To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) by Connie Willis

To Say Nothing of the Dog (write-in)

10 votes, 10.1%

Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon

OutlanderOutlander (write-in)

9 votes, 9.1%

Time and Again (Time, #1) by Jack Finney

Time and Again by Jack Finney

8 votes, 8.1%

Replay

8 votes, 8.1%

Doomsday Book

6 votes, 6.1%

The Time Machine

5 votes, 5.1%

Timeline by Michael Crichton

5 votes, 5.1%

11/22/63 by Stephen King (write-in)

4 votes, 4.0%

The Anubis Gates

3 votes, 3.0%

The Mirror

3 votes, 3.0%

Red River, Vol. 1 (Red River, #1) by Chie Shinohara

Anatolia Story by Chie Shinohara (Note by admin: This is actually a Manga graphic novel series know as Red River in the English translation but a notable entry in this chart)

3 votes, 3.0%

The Accidental Time Machine

2 votes, 2.0%

The Map of Time (Trilogía Victoriana, #1) by Félix J. Palma

The Map of Time (write-in)

2 votes, 2.0%

Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak

2 votes, 2.0%

When You Reach Me

2 votes, 2.0%

Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3) by Connie Willis

Blackout by Connie Willis (write-in)

2 votes, 2.0%

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (write-in)

2 votes, 2.0%

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

1 vote, 1.0%

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Somewhere in Time (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century by Harry Turtledove

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Hollow World

1 vote, 1.0%

Unhappenings

1 vote, 1.0%

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut (write-in)

1 vote, 1.0%

Time Shifters

0 votes, 0.0%

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